Originally Posted by
dead_pan
One of the videos does appear to show burning materials landing on the bridge deck, possibly unexploded material from an improvised device?
I'm guessing the 1 or 2 spans which fell undamaged can be craned back up into place relatively quickly (assuming they are undamaged). The broken span will need to be replaced, which will take quite some time.
That said I wouldn't like to be a member of the crew tasked with repairing the bridge. The Ukes may take a leaf out of Russia's playbook and attempt a 'double-tap'
And where would you put the crane? or take the kinks out
?
I have no idea how Kerch bridge was built but I imagine something like this great timelapse video .
Measured on google earth , in that part of the bridge the spans seem to be 60 meters. Losing 180 meters of span is not 'insignificant' even if they happen to have 3 premade spans lying around somewhere.
Now given that kind of method it is interesting that that the section so close to the incline was broken , no doubt that makes reconstruction technically somewhat more difficult.